“Unwilling either to cede their power to the lords or to institutionalize it, these ministers remained paralyzed.”

“It was to be feared that their Governments would finally cede to the pressure of public opinion.”

“This alliance of irreconcilable economic ideologies was bound to sunder and cede to a powerful tide of neo-liberalism.”

“When Clare joins the revolutionaries, she cedes her grandmother's land to the group, thus relinquishing part of the basis of her privilege.”

“But if it tries the moviegoer's patience, the film never cedes its fascination.”

“Once darkness falls, the army cedes huge areas of the shanty towns to local gangs and mobsters.”

“The Boers or Afrikaners, as the descendants of the Dutch called themselves, ceded the Cape to Great Britain in an 1814 treaty.”

“For this additional consideration the Cherokees release all right to the ceded land, forever.”

“India, north of a line drawn from Calcutta to Baroda, to be ceded to Russia.”

“In the eyes of euro-sceptics we have conceded enough power to European institutions already without ceding control of our economy too.”

“Now the vogue is for ceding powers to the autocracy of Brussels, which is immune from the vulgarities of electoral leverage.”

“The fear of ceding national sovereignty to business interests has unified this side into a form of nationalism.”